According to Kelso, the Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity

Introduction: A Question of Silence Section One Introduction: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Hebrew Bible - Introducing Luce Irigaray 1. 'The Monopoly of the Origin' and the Mute Foundation of Psychoanalysis: The Theoretical Interventions of Luce Irigaray 2. Remembering the Forgotten Mother: Engaging with Chronicles in an Irigarayan Mode Section Two Introduction: Our Production of a Past: Engaging with the Book of Chronicles 3. Who Begets Whom? Disavowing the Maternal Body: 1 Chronicles 1-9 4. The Debt-free Masculine Subject: The Repressed Maternal Body in 1 Chronicles 10-2 Chronicles 36 Conclusion

Julie Kelso is Honorary Research Advisor for the Centre for the Research on Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland.